In his first official communication of 2022, President Russell M. Nelson, leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shared important advice: “Be more resolute in being kind to others and strengthening your own spiritual foundation.”
Posting messages on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on Jan. 1, 2022, President Nelson made a few suggestions for those setting aside time to write resolutions for the coming year.
“First,” he wrote on Facebook and Instagram, “resolve to strengthen your spiritual foundation. This may involve setting a specific time and place to study the scriptures, praying more often, making temple worship a bigger priority, and letting God prevail in all aspects of your life.
“Second, resolve to be kind to others. When the Savior Jesus Christ visited the Americas, as recorded in the Book of Mormon, one of the first things He taught was the need to eliminate contention in our lives. So, please be compassionate, be understanding, be slow to judge, and be quick to forgive.
“Third, resolve to be resolute. The Lord loves effort. The Lord loves consistency. The Lord loves steadfastness. While we surely will come up short from time to time, our persistent efforts to hear Him and follow the inspiration He gives us will help us to ‘wax strong in the Spirit’ (Mosiah 18:26).”
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President Nelson’s messages follow a similar plea during his October 2021 general conference address. “It is now time that we each implement extraordinary measures — perhaps measures we have never taken before — to strengthen our personal spiritual foundations,” he said. “Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures.”
When a person’s spiritual foundation “is built solidly upon Jesus Christ, you have no need to fear,” he said. Source
Spiritual 1820
In the Prophet’s suggestion to, “resolve to strengthen your spiritual foundation”, I would like to revisit one of the most important events that ever happened in our lives. The appearance of the Father and Son to Joseph Smith in 1820. Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day, as we hear quoted. Let’s us briefly go back in history just before that special spring morning in 1820 and reflect what had just occurred.
Take a few minutes and reflect about who America was and who the world was in 1820. We had just formed a new union in 1776 and it seemed our nation was off and running behind the inspired United States Constitution. Washington and the brave Patriots along with our blessed Forefathers, we had become a new nation of liberty and freedom.
April 30, 1789 President George Washington’s inauguration ceremony in New York City was a grand historical event, attended by hundreds. We were on our way to live in the choicest Land of Liberty as a blessed nation. Why the United States, why here ant not in any other land? This quote by Bishop Whitney will explain better than I could.
“…in culmination of the grand scheme of schemes, this great nation, the Republic of the United States, might be established upon this land as an asylum for the oppressed; a resting place, it might be said, for the Ark of the covenant, where the temple of our God might be built; where the plan of salvation might be introduced and practiced in freedom, and not a dog would wag his tongue in opposition to the purposes of the Almighty. We believe that this was His object in creating the Republic of the United States; the only land where his work could be commenced or the feet of his people find rest. No other land had such liberal institutions, had adopted so broad a platform upon which all men might stand. We give glory to those patriots for the noble work they did; but we give the first glory to God, our Father and their Father, who inspired them. We take them by the hand as brothers. We believe they did nobly their work, even as we would fain do ours, faithfully and well, that we might not be recreant in the eyes of God, for failing to perform the mission to which He has appointed us.” Bishop Orson F. Whitney, delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Sunday Afternoon, April 19, 1885. Reported by John Irvine. Journal Discourses Volume 26 Page 201
I can do nothing for you
Just 50 years after this miraculous inauguration of our first US President, just our 8th President rejected Joseph Smith and the Saints. “The Prophet Joseph Smith went to Washington to meet with Congress and the president of the United States regarding the Saints’ plea for redress and restoration of their rights. After Joseph addressed President Martin Van Buren (pictured here), the president said, “What can I do? I can do nothing for you, -if I do anything, I shall come in contact with the whole State of Missouri.” (Library of Congress.)…
Expulsion from Missouri and Regrouping in Illinois
The story begins in 1838. In the fall of 1838 both the Democratically-controlled Senate and House of Representatives were lost to the surging Whig Party, evidence of President Martin Van Buren’s increasing vulnerability. The unanticipated baggage Van Buren had inherited from his predecessor, Andrew Jackson, had led to the economic reversal known as the Panic of 1837, which still held its grip on Americans. Earlier in the year the Underground Railroad had clandestinely begun operation, spiriting black slaves to liberation in the free states of the North. Sectional issues intensified as the first abolitionist was elected to the House of Representatives. And at the same time as the Saints’ expulsion from Missouri, the winter of 1838–39, a somewhat comparable number of Cherokee Indians were banished by the federal government from Georgia to designated lands in what is now Oklahoma. The weighty matters occupying America’s citizenry in 1838 subordinated the catastrophe consuming the Latter-day Saints in America’s westernmost state, Missouri.
With the Prophet’s followers in a panic after the state of Missouri pressed them into submission and flight, Joseph Smith was subjected to sequential incarcerations beginning the first week of November 1838—first in Independence, then in Richmond, then in Liberty, Clay County, Missouri, where he arrived on December 1, 1838. Four and a half months later, after surviving a bitter winter in the jail’s stone dungeon, Joseph “escaped” with four fellow inmates in collaboration with their sympathetic guards. A week later he was reunited with his wife and children in the Mississippi River city of Quincy, Illinois, on April 22, 1839.
The Prophet and several thousand of his fellow impoverished Latter-day Saint refugees soon made plans to relocate forty-some miles upriver to the villages of Commerce, Illinois, and Montrose, Iowa. On May 10, 1839, Joseph and Emma Smith moved with their four children into a log home near the bank of the huge river, in what would later be called Nauvoo. The emerging city had antecedents that stretched back to the beginning of the century; as early as 1805, government explorer Zebulon Pike marched across the site, and a farmstead was established in what later became Nauvoo. The first permanent white settler moved to this bend in the Mississippi River in 1823. Others followed. Six years later, the same year Hancock County was organized, the few who inhabited the future Mormon site established a post office with the exotic name of Venus. Five years later the small frontier village became Commerce, and a sister settlement, Commerce City, was organized three years later. The beauty of the peninsula, located within the westernmost county in Illinois, drew the Saints enthusiastically into the region. Here Joseph Smith’s vision for a flourishing metropolis quickly materialized.” Joseph Smith Goes to Washington, 1839-40 Ronald O. Barney
“Tensions escalated when an affidavit was sworn out against Joseph Smith falsely stating that he and another Mormon had organized an army of 500 men and had threatened death to old settlers and citizens in Daviess County. Other false claims of threats, rumors, and exaggerated stories circulated throughout Missouri. False reports of a Mormon uprising reached Missouri governor Lilburn W. Boggs. In the mobbings that followed, many Latter-day Saints were murdered and their lands and possessions were taken. Unsuccessfully, they appealed for relief to Governor Boggs several times. Mormons defended themselves, fueling stories that Mormons intended to sack and burn Richmond, Missouri.
Relying on the false reports of an insurrection by Mormons, Governor Boggs issued an extermination order. Violence against the Mormons erupted and they were brutally driven from the state. Joseph Smith and other Church leaders were taken prisoner and held in dungeon-like conditions for several months. They were charged with “murder, treason, burglary, arson, larceny, theft, and stealing.”2 Some state officials concluded that Joseph Smith and others would not be successfully prosecuted, so a sheriff and other guards allowed the prisoners to escape while taking them to a different county for trial. They joined other Latter-day Saints in Illinois.” Joseph Smith: Prosecuted and Persecuted
by Paulah | Nov 5, 2013
Good to Evil
While all the joy of heaven began in 1820 and 1830 with the restoration of The Church of Christ, the USA became increasingly difficult to mange. In just 50 years from the First Vision, we now have a President of the United States not supporting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We see our Saints being raped and killed and property stolen. What pains our Saints had to suffer from a previously honorable Government of the United States. Amazingly quick turnaround.
Evil 1776
The Original 1776 Bavarian Illuminatenordes: The Order of the Illuminati
The original order of the Bavarian Illuminati was founded on the First of May in the year 1776. The founder of the order was Adam Weishaupt (1748 – 1830), who was raised by his godfather, the Baron von Ickstatt. Ickstatt was a member of the Privy Council, a professor at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria and the tutor of Maximillian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria. Attending the Jesuit University of Ingolstadt with his godfather’s patronage, Weishaupt became the first non-Jesuit chair of canon law at the University for nearly a century.
The liberal layman’s appointment to the chair of ecclesiastical law made him a prominent object of Jesuit wrath. The Jesuits were dissolved by Pope Clement XIV just three years before the Order of the Illuminati was officially founded. Weishaupt intended for his Illuminati to replace the obedient order of Ignatius of Loyola as the paramount force of education and enlightenment in Germany.
The Order of the Illuminati structure was mainly modeled on the Jesuit order. However, Weishaupt also borrowed much from the Craft after he was made a Strict Observance Freemason in the Bavarian capital of Munich in 1777. The original name of Weishaupt’s order was the Perfectibilists or ‘Perfectionists,’ for their aim of the “perfection of man.”
After Weishaupt was raised a Master Mason, being dissatisfied with the awkward name, his order became ‘Illuminatenordens,’ and represented itself with the symbol of the point within the circle. The Unknown Superiors or Secret Chiefs of Strict Observance Freemasonry inspired the structure of the Illuminati hierarchy. By 1779 the Order of the Illuminati had assumed leadership of the Masonic lodge in Munich.
The original five Illuminati were: Adam Weishaupt, known by his secret order name “Spartacus,” and Weishaupt’s law students Franz Anton von Massenhausen “Ajax,” Max Edler von Merz “Tiberius,” Andreas Sutor “Erasmus Rotterdam’s” and Bauhoff “Agathon.” The order rapidly grew into at least 2,500 members within a decade. Members came from the ranks of academia, the nobility and government bureaucracy, the diplomatic community, the legal establishment, the military, various police forces, the medical profession, the Church, and other essential institutions.
Mutually fearing an educated and organized atheism, the Catholic Jesuits joined forces with their Protestant rivals, the German Rosicrucian’s, to destroy this threat to their way of life and socio-political dominance. In the 1780s the Elector of Bavaria, Duke Karl Theodor, issued several edicts banning the order and ultimately threatening the membership with death. The Bavarian Elector and his agents interrogated and persecuted members until the Order of the Illuminati was dissolved. Many of the adepts fled Bavaria to various parts ruled by friendly sovereigns like the Duke of Saxe- Gotha. https://www.royalartsociety.com/2018/04/02/the-original-1776-bavarian-illuminatenordes-the-order-of-the-illuminati-part-i/
Allegory of the Jesuits’ Missionary Work, Andrea Pozzo, 1694
So, just months before our July 4, 1776 celebration began extreme evil with the beginning of this Bavarian Illuminatti. It seems that whenever the Lord begins a new phase of joy and goodness, Satan creates a false priesthood or a counter balance of evil to deceive us. ..k
1830 A True Church, and a Correct Book
For another example, what great missions were accomplished in 1830? The beginning of the official Church began in the Whitmer home in Fayette NY and the most correct book, The Book of Mormon was first published. Blog Here
What was Satan’s counter? Two of the most evil books ever written came to our world.
Which book published in 1830 is most correct?
1- Principles of Geology: Published July 1830 An attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation is a book by the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell that was first published in three volumes from 1830–1833. As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Principles of Geology is a landmark in the history of science. In this first of three volumes, Charles Lyell (1797-1875) sets forth his powerful uniformitarian argument: processes now visibly acting in the natural world are essentially the same as those that have acted throughout the history of the earth, and are sufficient to account for all geological phenomena. Also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity.
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who popularized the revolutionary work of James Hutton. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which presented uniformitarianism–the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same scientific processes still in operation today–to the broad general public. Principles of Geology also challenged theories popularized by Georges Cuvier, which were the most accepted and circulated ideas about geology in Europe at the time.
His scientific contributions included an explanation of earthquakes, the theory of gradual “backed up-building” of volcanoes, and in stratigraphy the division of the Tertiary period into the Pliocene, Miocene, and Eocene. He also coined the currently-used names for geological eras, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. He incorrectly conjectured that icebergs may be the emphasis behind the transport of glacial erratic’s, and that silty loess deposits might have settled out of flood waters.
Lyell, following deistic traditions, favored an indefinitely long age for the earth, despite geological evidence suggesting an old but finite age.[2] He was a close friend of Charles Darwin, and contributed significantly to Darwin’s thinking on the processes involved in evolution. He helped to arrange the simultaneous publication in 1858 of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, despite his personal religious qualms about the theory. He later published evidence from geology of the time man had existed on Earth.
How correct is the 1859 publication, Origin of Species?
3- The Origin of Species published on 24 November 1859, (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life), is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin’s book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection.
Darwin’s book was as popular as it was controversial. The book convinced many people that species change over time—a lot of time—suggesting that the planet was much older than what was commonly believed at the time: six thousand years.
Read this article written by a BYU Evolutionary Biologist that loves Darwin. https://www.newsweek.com/evolution-real-mormons-should-embrace-darwins-theories-christian-college-825723
In my opinion Steven Peck began teaching evolution as a science but I feel he has now become a full supporter that evolution is true and not just a theory. In my opinion a cat can never become a dog. Things evolve but they don’t become a different species. What do I know I’m an uneducated scientist but a very educated Christian.
3- The Book of Mormon Published June 1830 is a sacred text which we believe contains the writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421. It was translated by the Gift and Power of God and it was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith.
So as you ask yourself, “Which book published in 1830 is most correct?” Was it the Book on Evolution and pseudoscience, or the most correct book on the earth, even The Book of Mormon? It makes sense that as the Lord reveals such a powerful book, Satan tries to imitate it. Thus are the workings of evil trying to replace good.
Now let’s reflect on what was going on in the world in 1822 when evil materialized in Europe.
Evil 1822
In the secret 1822 Treaty of Verona (between Austria, France, Prussia and Russia) the Jesuits agreed to smash the US Constitution and suppress the freedom of the US. Their methods included destroying free speech, destroying and suppressing the press, universal censorship, sustaining the cooperation of the Pope and clergy to use religion to help keep nations in passive obedience and financing wars against countries with representative governments.
The monarchs who signed this treaty were ultimately deposed. Most of these families are very wealthy and may be more powerful today than when they sat upon thrones. They are known collectively as the Black Nobility. Privately these families refuse to recognize any right to rule except their own.
The fact that this treaty was made long ago does not mean it is void. The treaty was placed in the Congressional Record on April 25, 1916 by Senator Owen.
Secret Treaty of Verona 1822-2022, Age of Metternich & Geopolitical Counter-Reformation
“We arrive at this important intersection in the realm of geopolitical and international dynamics, our present era cannot be rightly understood nor the fate of America as we approach 2022 unless the chronicles of the Age of Metternich are fully disclosed and apprehended. The Congress of Vienna 1815 represent the reactionary forces of Monarchy and Imperialism as they seek to remain relevant in the face of the enormous prosperity and proliferation of representative democracy throughout the world. The nobility and royal aristocracy of Europe sought to repress popular government and republican values in Spain and Portugal vowing to raise armies to destroy representative democratic governments by any means necessary.
We establish the history of the Napoleonic Wars and the Illuminati conspiracy and plot out of Bavaria which orchestrated the sophisticated intrigue and duplicity against the French King leading to the Great Terror and the collapse of the throne of France. The rise of Napoleon coincides with the papal order to extinguish the Jesuit Order, just as the Congress of Vienna aligns with the restoration of the Jesuits in 1813. Napoleon had been the effective weapon of the Jesuits during their suppression and with their return in 1813, Napoleon is removed and the work of restoring absolute monarchy and the imprimatur and prerogative of the “divine right” of kings begins in Vienna under the scrutiny of the Grand Duke Metternich who lead to ideological war of annihilation against all democratic elections and popular government.
In 1822 the high contracting powers of the Congress of Vienna in the effort to restore absolute monarchy as the basis of governments throughout the world and reasserting their territorial claims and holdings and unlimited authority as those entitled as princes and royalty. The Congress of Vienna is a repudiation of the American congress and focuses the direct vengeance and vendetta of their black conspiracy against the United States of America. As we approach in 2022 the looming political catastrophe of Biden, the crashing anarchy overtaking our borders and the imminent implosion of the Federal Reserve Dollar we must remember the determination of this hateful adversary which has vowed a perpetual and unending oath to destroy America in joined in a secret Treaty of Verona, pledging their resources and wealth toward this endeavor for as long as time shall endure.
We must look closely at the remarkable book by Samuel B. Morse called, Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States. This grave and detailed account of an intellectual who literally travelled Italy and Europe in pursuit of his account published in 1835. Samuel Morse, the inventor of the Telegraph details for us the sincere hatred of the United states and all democratic governments by the Imperial powers of Europe upheld in their tyranny by the doctrine of the divine right of kings and princes, that doctrine long espoused by the Vatican for many centuries. The notion of political liberty and individual freedoms was so entirely anathema to the dictatorial rule of absolute monarchy that the crowned heads of Europe gathered to make clandestine war against democracy.
The Congress of Vienna and the secret Treaty of Verona were again reestablished in 1835 at the Congress of Chieri in Italy, their at a non descript Jesuit college the royal personas and high contracting sovereigns gathered to redouble their efforts and make long term future plans to subvert all heretic governments who would not submit to the Roman papacy. The geopolitical strategy of the international elite was permanently framed at the foundation of their efforts which at their core would be the execution of the Counter-Reformation and the affirmation of the Council of Trent.
In the background of the royal courts of Europe and the Jesuit intrigues against Protestants we find the orders of the papal knights, the Knights of Malta who also find themselves assaulted and looted by the armies of Napoleon must also secure the island of Malta during the negotiations during the Congress of Vienna. We find consistently at the fulcrum of history men like Cecil Rhodes, Albert Pike, Franz von Papen, and Klemens Metternich who are all knights of Malta, in the service of the Vatican.” Source
